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Five Sounds I Would Rather Not Hear

Some sounds are lovely: a kitty purring. A baby babbling. And a babbling brook, while we’re at it. But others? Not so much. Here are some I could live without.

It’s the middle of the night. You hear something. At first it’s not clear; then it is. <BLOOP bloop. BLOOP bloop. BLOOP bloop. Bleaaach!> Know what it is? Of course you do. It is your cat, heaving… eventually causing an unspeakable mess on your best carpet. (Murphy’s Law: cat messes always go where you least want them to.)

<click> That is the despicable sound your door makes when it closes behind you, locking you out. (Your cat is on the other side of the door, laughing.)

It’s the middle of the night. Yeah, again. <shhssshhhssshhh> It’s the lovely sound of rain pattering on your window screen. Well, actually it would be lovely if you hadn’t left all the windows open. Again.

It’s any morning. <Bing! ba-bing! bing! ba-bing!> It’s your danged alarm. You feel like flushing the device down the toilet. But you don’t, because then you would hear:

<cloggggngggggnnngrindddggshhhh> It’s the infernal sound of a clogged toilet. Look, it’s hard to reproduce, okay? You try it if you’re so smart!